We produce Across the Nationsaudio downloads on various mission-related subjects,
and we have just uploaded two new editions for you to enjoy. Across the Nations downloads
are interviews and documentaries exploring the issues of mission in various cultural
contexts across the world, talking both to missionaries supported through GBM and
other evangelical leaders from across the world.

Geoff Low served with his wife Rachel as a GBM missionary in Peru in partnership
with Latin Link, and now leads the Philip project here in the UK, working with Friends
International. Drawing on his experience of both cultures, in this interview Geoff
explores the concept of globalisation and how it affects mission in the developing
world. What impact does a globalised ‘world culture’ have on indigenous Peruvians?
How does a western missionary make the contextual adjustments needed to be effective
in serving in Peru? Is Spanish the right language to use in reaching Peru? How should
theological training best operate in training Quechua-speaking church leaders? Geoff
engages with these questions from his own experience of mission.

Geoff then turns globalisation on its head by explaining his work in Britain with
the Philip Project. This is a training scheme that works with international students
who have come to study in UK universities, equipping them to understand the Bible
for themselves and training them as leaders for when they return home (as Philip
did with the Ethiopian in Acts 8). Geoff challenges us to think outside our ‘little
Englander’ attitudes and reach out to students and migrants who have come to Britain.
‘If God has placed these communities here, could it be that he has a purpose for
us to reach them with the gospel.’ He also points out that the biggest barrier to
Muslim evangelism in Britain is fear of Muslims on the part of Christians.

Leonardo De Chirico is an Italian pastor and theologian who is planting a church
in the heart of Rome. Renowned for his theological mind, Leonardo has written extensively
in both Italian and English, and writes a blog vaticanfiles.org examining a range
of spiritual issues in Italy from a reformed evangelical perspective. In a fascinating
interview, he describes his spiritual background, explains current events in the
Roman Catholic Church with its current ‘post-modern Pope’ and how the Catholic Church
shapes life in the eternal city.

Leonardo also explains how he came to plant a Reformed Baptist church in Rome, building
on his previous experience of church-planting bin Ferrara. Leonardo hopes that a
church-planting movement will begin to thrive in Italy, and describes the kind of
person who is needed to be a missionary church-planter in Italy. ‘The country is
ready, we have a new generation of leaders who can engage in mission, so let’s do
it.’